Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-01
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


 Time and bill books at Dorman's.
 Rents collected promptly at H. F. Hoadley's
 The postponed Bristol races take place to- day.
 There are several large vessels anchored ir tLe lower harbor.
 The Shelton Tack company has filled ar order for Switzerland.
 The Huntington fair was unsuccessful owing to the weather.
 The Willimantic fair had to be postponed yesterday until to-day.
 There was a heavy thunder shower in Torrington and vicinity yesterday morning
 The late Colonel Basserman had g, 900 in- surance upon his life in the Mutual Life of New York.
 The Hillhouse High school Crescent" fol September is just issued and is a very at. tractiVe and interesting issue.
 The Young Mems Institute has this weeks weather bulletins displayed in line, showing the continued progress eastward of the storm center.
 Mir Dyas D. Lum will lecture on Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in Labor hall. His subject will be "The social heresy taught by the Chicago anarchists"
 At English Hall on Sunday night Rev. John c. Collins will give an account of the recent convention in New York of Christian Workers. There will be good singing.
 The Second regiment band serenaded Col. Graham after the big fremen's parade ir Middetown on Thursday, and ex-Lieutenant Governor Douglass was serenaded by Colts band.
 Constable M. R. Enscoe has plans out by Galway for the erection this fall next his house on Edwards street of a double frame residence with French roof, and fifteen rooms in each house.
 The Republican caucus in Plainville nom- mated J. H. Edmunds for first selectman, c. H. Coles for second, R. 0. Usher for town clerk, E. F. Tomlinson for treasurer, and R. A. Potter for school visitors.
 Next Mondays town elections include ev- cry town in Connecticut excepting New Ha- ven and Bridgeport. Most of the towns will vote on the question of liquor license, and some will vote as to closing the saloons at Il o'clock
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary society for Litchfeld county, auxiliary to the New Haven branch, held it's annual meeting with the Third Congregational church in Torring- ton on Thursday and was largely attended. The meeting was one of unusual interest.
 The Sanford Girls orchestra is filling an engagement at the mechanics' fair in Boston. Miss Adelaide Rice, of this city, is the pian- ist. They filled profitable engagement at the Hotel Riverside, Crescent Park, R. l., last summer, and go from Boston to New York and thence to Portland, Me.
 The postponed praise service at Dwight Place church takes place tomorrow evening. A large audience will no doubt be present. There will be singing by the male quartette of the church and an address by the pastor, who has just returned from the dedication of the elegant new church in Cleveland, Ohio.
 A feature of the business at Burgess 6 Burgess is their large sales of the world-re- nowned Knox hats of New York, for which they are the sole agents for New Haven and vicinity, and they are selling host of stiff hats in all the recognized fashionable styles. The ladies also are sending in their seal sacques to be trimmed or put in order, and many are making calls at the store and select ing from the stock of furs and having seal sacques made to order.